Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Russia , whatever big Boris Yeltsin may be — and you only have to look at him to know more about that than you want to — he is no Gorbachev . |
| 2 | and you probably know more about that than I do so I wo n't you know |
| 3 | Will they know more about that than they do when they simply carry out what the curriculum requires of them regardless of how it is supported , budgeted for and described to parents by the governors ? |
| 4 | But you 'd know more about that than me , Angus . |
| 5 | ‘ I said you probably know more about that than me ’ she laughed . |
| 6 | Drugs did come into this story , that had to be recognized , and no doubt the police investigating team knew more about that than he did . |
| 7 | ‘ They can tell you more about that than I. ’ She took a deep breath . |
| 8 | And that 's why I think it 's very important that erm the City Council , for example , has a Women 's Committee and Ann , obviously , will be able to talk much more about that than I can . |
| 9 | There is evidence that this tactic had some effect in marginal seats and , indeed , made the overall result far better for Labour than it would have been had people not voted tactically . |
| 10 | Dickens 's Will Fern , with first-hand knowledge of life inside one , complains of this female tendency : ‘ It looks well in a picter , I 've heerd say ; but there a n't weather in picters , and maybe ‘ t is fitter for that than for a place to live in . ’ |
| 11 | The ‘ individualism ’ at issue here is , of course , enmeshed in bourgeois categories ; but , in its own way , it seems no more ‘ crippled ’ for that than the different but equally ‘ bourgeois ’ individualism of a Schoenberg . |
| 12 | ‘ I think this place is more suited for that than any island . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 15 | Ah , you probably know more about this than just about anybody outside government . |
| 16 | He felt more uneasy about this than about borrowing cars , but considered that the reason he wanted the money for was worthy : not as if it was coke or ciggies or similar self-indulgence . |
| 17 | I 've written about this before and I expect I 'll write about it again , because I get more frustrated knitters questioning me about this than almost anything else . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's not the sort of work Super Mario has ever had to do , but I feel a little more patriotic about this than any of my other jobs , ’ he says . |
| 19 | So when you 're talking about marketing and the marketing manager 's in the audience , you could say , ‘ Whoops , I 'm on dangerous ground — I know John over there knows a lot more about this than I do . ’ |
| 20 | EG & G — Dr Wickram will know much more about this than I do — oversees such things as nuclear-weapons tests and the so-called Star Wars . |
| 21 | They get much angrier about this than egalitarian feminist psychologists do . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm probably more worried about this than you are . |
| 23 | I dare say knows more about this than I do . |
| 24 | Apologies too for being more boring about this than an Arsenal v Wimbledon game . |
| 25 | Hooper said : ‘ I 've got more of a hopeful feel about this than the Auxerre game . |
| 26 | Hooper said : ‘ I 've got more of a hopeful feel about this than the Auxerre game . |
| 27 | Put it this way Trace I am more petrified than about this than you are . |
| 28 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 29 | He holds the bat aloft for comfort , so that his eyes remain level and he concentrates feverishly , believing it a greater crime to be out for 30 than for nought . |
| 30 | He holds the bat aloft for comfort , so that his eyes remain level and he concentrates feverishly , believing it a greater crime to be out for 30 than for nought . |